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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: What if I Talk About Race Wrong? - Chapter 6: Is Police Brutality Really About Race?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which aspect of Oluo's first serious conversation about race with her mother made her happy they had talked?
(a) Its tears.
(b) Its laughter.
(c) Its twists and turns.
(d) Its outcome.

2. When Oluo got pulled over for speeding in 2015, she was given a ticket for driving how many miles per hour over the speed limit?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 1.

3. Over how many hours did Oluo engage with her coworker online the evening of the described altercation?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

4. In Chapter 1: Is it Really About Race?, Oluo portrays a conversation with a friend who claims that "The problem in American society is not race, it's" (18) what?
(a) Sex.
(b) Violence.
(c) Class.
(d) Gender.

5. What is NOT a trait of her own writing that Oluo mentions as something she gave her readers that many other writers did not offer?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Utility.
(c) Authenticity.
(d) Intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Black people have a 3.5-4 times higher probability of having what fate befall them at the hands of police than their white counterparts?

2. What platform did Oluo use to denounce a particular city's choice to host a concert by a particular hip-hop artist?

3. Oluo asserts that "our class system is" (21) all but which of the following?

4. Ijeoma Oluo states in the preface of So You Want to Talk About Racism that she is writing the preface how many years after the first edition of the book was published?

5. Oluo states that her mother's "optimism and starry-eyed love" (39) came from what source?

(see the answer key)

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